AI Forward Deployed Engineer
AI Forward Deployed Engineer
Leading Buy Side Client | London | Hybrid | Competitive Daily Rate
The Opportunity
Join a leading Buy Side Client building production AI systems that transform how investment professionals work. This isn't an R&D role-you'll ship LLM-powered applications that investment and finance teams depend on daily, while simultaneously building the governed AI platform that underpins the entire organisation.
50% embedding with business teams | 50% platform engineering
What You'll Build
Embedded AI Applications:
- Ship high-value LLM applications directly with Investment and Finance teams
- Turn ambiguous business problems into production-grade AI solutions
- Deploy agentic workflows using Claude and ChatGPT APIs
- Work alongside investment professionals to identify and solve real problems
AI Platform Engineering:
- Build and extend governed AI platform: LLM gateway, model control layer, privacy Proxy
- Develop MCP connectors for Salesforce, M365, deal flow systems, analytics platforms, and third-party data providers
- Implement logging, audit trails, observability, and evals tooling
- Design agentic workflows spanning multiple systems with proper tracing, scoring, and regression checks
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (FCA, DORA)
Essential Skills
Production AI Engineering:
- Deep practical fluency with Claude and ChatGPT APIs, tool use, structured outputs, and prompting techniques
- Track record shipping LLM-powered applications that users depend on
- Experience with LLM gateways, privacy proxies, agent observability, or evals frameworks (even at hobby/prototype level)
Software Engineering:
- Strong Python and TypeScript for production systems
- Modern Azure infrastructure and services
- Integration patterns: REST APIs, MCP, webhooks, SSO/Entra ID
- Production code experience in regulated or enterprise environments
Business & Communication:
- Excellent communicator who can sit with investment professionals and turn conversations into code
- Ability to work with ambiguous business problems and ship concrete solutions
- Experience pairing with non-technical stakeholders